Automate on-going checks?

Hi all,

I'm setting up a new laptop that my dad bought as a present for my
mom. One interesting aspect of this laptop is that it has two 500GB
hard drives in it so I was going to use RAID1. As the laptop will be
at a location that I won't often visit I wanted to set up some sort of
on-going daily/weekly testing of the RAID that the machine could email
the results to me.

Is there a document somewhere that goes over what mdadm (or other
tools) provide in this area? I assume I'll use smartctl as part of the
solution but what else can I do to reduce the chances of something
getting overlooked?

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: Automate on-going checks?

use raid1 with spare disks or write-mostly disks increase your disks re=
dundancy

2011/2/16 Mark Knecht :
> Hi all,
>
> I'm setting up a new laptop that my dad bought as a present for my
> mom. One interesting aspect of this laptop is that it has two 500GB
> hard drives in it so I was going to use RAID1. As the laptop will be
> at a location that I won't often visit I wanted to set up some sort o=
f
> on-going daily/weekly testing of the RAID that the machine could emai=
l
> the results to me.
>
> Is there a document somewhere that goes over what mdadm (or other
> tools) provide in this area? I assume I'll use smartctl as part of th=
e
> solution but what else can I do to reduce the chances of something
> getting overlooked?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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